Medium and Light Engineering Sector is a segment of engineering which mainly deals with production and sale of medium and light engineering equipments such as barrels, drums, containers, switch gears, cables, machine tools, watches, tractors, lamps, electric motors, exhausters, air-brakes, LPG cylinders, components and instruments, telephones, teleprinters and so on.

The government sector firms in the medium and light engineering sector are discussed below.

Andrew Yule & Company Ltd (AYCL)

Andrew Yule & Company Ltd is concerned with the manufacture and sale of Black Tea, Transformers, Regulators, Rectifiers, etc. The organization also deals with the job of installation and commissioning of electrical equipments. Hooghly Printing Co. Ltd is a subsidiary company of AYCL. The company has 6 operating units in West Bengal and 1 unit in Tamil Nadu.

Bharat Heavy Electronics Ltd (BEL)

Bharat Heavy Electronics Ltd mainly deals with the manufacture of Tran receivers used by Indian Army for radio communication. The company also manufactures other electronic components such as radars and telecommunication equipments. BEL Optronic Devices Ltd is the subsidiary firm of BEL. It has got operating units at Bangalore, Ghaziabad, Pune, Machilipatnam, Punchakula, Kotdwara, Navi Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad.

Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL)

ECIL, the multi product and multi technology unit was established with a main objective to develop and promote industrial electronics which have indigenous identity. Also the purpose is to attain self sufficiency in Atomic Energy programme. The company deals with the manufacture of nuclear industrial instruments, radio communicating systems, telecommunication equipments, electronic voting machines and so on.

HMT Ltd

HMT is one of the pioneering enterprises which deal with the manufacture and sale of tractors, food processing machines (FPM) and so on. The company has got 4 operating units - 2 manufacturing and 2 service divisions. It has also got 6 subsidiary firms namely HMT (International), HMT watches, HMT Chinar Watches, HMT Bearing, HMT Machine Tools and Praga Tools Ltd.

List of other Government Companies in Medium and Light Engineering Sector

• Antrix Corporation Ltd
• Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd
• BEL Optronics Ltd
• Bharat Dynamics Ltd
• Bharat Electronics Ltd
• Bharat Pumps & Compressors Ltd
• Biecco Lawrie Ltd
• Central Electronics Ltd
• Electronics Corporation of India Ltd
• Hindustan Cables Ltd
• HMT Bearings Ltd
• HMT Chinar Watches Ltd
• HMT Ltd
• HMT Machine Tools Ltd
• HMT Watches Ltd
• I.T.I Ltd
• IDPL (Tamilnadu) Ltd
• Instrumentation Ltd
• National Instruments Ltd
• Praga Tools Ltd
• Rajasthan Electronics and Instruments Ltd
• Richardson & Cruddas Ltd
• Semiconductor Complex Ltd
• Vignyan Industries Ltd

In addition to these governmental companies in public sector, there are many firms in the private sector also.